• Thumbnail for Zorkul
    Zorkul (Dari: زارکول; Pashto: زارکول; Tajik: Зоркӯл, romanized: Zārkul) is a lake in the Pamir Mountains that runs along the border between the Wakhan...
    7 KB (595 words) - 00:52, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pamir River
    the north and the Wakhan District in the south. It starts from the Lake Zorkul, at a height of 4,130 meters, and then flows west, and later southwest....
    2 KB (267 words) - 17:54, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pamir Mountains
    west. Pamirs are used for summer pasture. The Great Pamir is around Lake Zorkul. The Little Pamir is east of this in the far east of Wakhan. The Taghdumbash...
    32 KB (3,074 words) - 09:35, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amu Darya
    as the true source of the Oxus: The Pamir River, which emerges from Lake Zorkul (once also known as Lake Victoria) in the Pamir Mountains (ancient Mount...
    37 KB (3,805 words) - 03:47, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wakhan Corridor
    The northern border of the corridor is formed by the Pamir River and Lake Zorkul in the west and the high peaks of the Pamir Mountains in the east. To the...
    22 KB (2,401 words) - 04:52, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tajikistan
    19th-century painting of lake Zorkul and a local Tajik inhabitant...
    143 KB (11,907 words) - 11:18, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zorkul Nature Reserve
    Zorkul Nature Reserve is a 1,610 km2 (620 sq mi) nature reserve in the south-eastern section of the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region of Tajikistan, adjoining...
    3 KB (398 words) - 01:01, 1 May 2024
  • Afghanistan. It lies at an altitude of 4,139 m on the eastern shore of Zorkul lake, near the Afghan border with Tajikistan but also close to the Afghan...
    7 KB (117 words) - 22:38, 15 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Great Game
    territory, especially around Panjdeh. This left the border east of Lake Zorkul in the Wakhan region to be defined. This territory was claimed by China...
    161 KB (18,721 words) - 12:27, 8 April 2024
  • National Park Ramit State Nature Reserve Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve Zorkul Nature Reserve Karakul (Tajikistan) (Lake) Kayrakkum Reservoir Panj River...
    484 bytes (31 words) - 22:47, 7 May 2022
  • the Pamirs, on the Afghan-Tajik border, about 15 km (9 mi) south of Lake Zorkul. "Concord Peak – Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering". Mountain-Forecast.com...
    1 KB (43 words) - 08:36, 23 December 2023
  • Victoria Lake (New Zealand), a lake in Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand Zorkul, a lake on the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan once known as Lake...
    880 bytes (161 words) - 12:52, 24 March 2019
  • Karakul Lake 36,400 90,000 Kayrakum Reservoir 52,000 130,000 Lower part of Panj River 0 0 Shorkul and Rangkul Lakes 2,400 5,900 Zorkul Lake 3,800 9,400...
    242 KB (217 words) - 12:38, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Afghanistan–Tajikistan border
    The boundary follows the Pamir for 71 km (44 mi) eastwards as far as Lake Zorkul (Sir-i-kol). The boundary then goes overland for 218 km (135 mi) up to the...
    14 KB (1,351 words) - 06:30, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fergana Valley
    in the Pamirs, were fixed by an Anglo-Russian commission in 1885, from Zorkul (Victoria Lake) to the Chinese frontier; and Khignan, Roshan and Wakhan...
    49 KB (5,870 words) - 06:53, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geography of Tajikistan
    (Pamir) Shorkul (Pamir) Turumtaikul (Pamir) Tuzkul (Pamir) Yashilkul (Pamir) Zorkul (Pamir) Area total: 142,600 km2 (55,100 sq mi) country rank in the world:...
    31 KB (2,972 words) - 07:29, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of dams and reservoirs in Afghanistan
    Sangjoy-Loman Sarda Shah wa Arus Shahtoot Shorabak Sukhtook Sultan Tori Zorkul Agha Jan Dam in Uruzgan Province. Bagh Dara Dam in Kapisa Province. Dahan...
    21 KB (1,021 words) - 03:03, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of World Heritage Sites in Tajikistan
    Balka (2006) Zakaznik Kusavlisay (2006) State reserve Dashti Djum (2006) Zorkul State Reserve (2006) Silk Roads Sites in Tajikistan (2013) Tourism in Tajikistan...
    6 KB (344 words) - 01:42, 24 July 2023
  • Sarykol District, a district of Kostanay Province in northern Kazakhstan Zorkul, a lake in the Pamir Mountains formerly known as Lake Sarikol Tashkurgan...
    719 bytes (125 words) - 09:15, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Afghanistan–Uzbekistan border
    also stipulated the position of the land border in section east of Lake Zorkul up to China, with a series of boundary pillars subsequently erected. In...
    9 KB (955 words) - 16:35, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Environmental issues in Afghanistan
    District of Kabul Province Sultan Dam in Jaghatu District of Ghazni Province Zorkul in Wakhan District of Badakhshan Province Since 2002, over 5 million Afghan...
    30 KB (3,163 words) - 17:24, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of international lakes
     North Korea Tore-Khol Lake  Mongolia  Russia Uvs Lake  Mongolia  Russia Zorkul  Afghanistan  Tajikistan Båvrojávrre  Norway  Sweden Bilećko Lake  Bosnia...
    9 KB (946 words) - 19:35, 12 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Murghob District
    lakes: Sarez Lake on the river Bartang, Yashil Kul on the river Gunt, and Zorkul on the Pamir River. The district's eastern border shares the Sarikol Range...
    8 KB (443 words) - 15:49, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Afghanistan–Turkmenistan border
    also stipulated the position of the land border in section east of Lake Zorkul up to China, with a series of boundary pillars subsequently erected. In...
    10 KB (1,071 words) - 20:46, 5 February 2023
  • Nicholas II of Russia, on official maps, the Russians agreed to refer to Lake Zorkul as Lake Victoria in honor of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Ewan...
    3 KB (314 words) - 10:53, 2 August 2021